Word: tensions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Also, Lindsay has attracted thousands of young volunteer workers who are canvassing the city, Gene McCarthy-style, on Lindsay's behalf. And despite the charges and countercharges between the Lindsay and Procaccino camps over racism?Marchi calls both his adversaries "rhetorical muggers"?the tension that was so evident a few months ago may be decreasing. If it continues to ease, so will anti-Lindsay sentiment...
Somewhat the same impression of tension between the Administration and the Committee of Fifteen came out in another incident. Heimert made a point of stressing that the Committee would continue its work on governance questions while the new Committee on Governance- on which all Committee of Fifteen members would sit in rotation-explores the same subject...
...been stopped if the faculty and administration had not reacted to the provocation of the students with such equivocation. Bewildered and angry with no precedent to guide them, they frantically applied stop-gap measures. Wooing the students one week and calling in the cops the next created a great tension at the faculty. The students never knew what was going to happen to them. Insecure and fearful, students banded together in a community-something almost unknown at a French university...
...After leaving the Isle of Skye I found it difficult to describe the feeling and spirit of those friends. The world seemed filled with streets of people who never really saw each other or touched each other. There was tension and aggression in people's voices and movements. That most people are movements. That most people are lonely collections of frustrations brought home the beauty of Donovan's community where each person is an individual, and yet shares in another person's experiences where each day is a celebration of life...
...pills have proliferated. One-quarter to one-third of all the medical prescriptions now written in the U.S. is tor a mood-altering pep pill or tranquilizer; newspaper, magazine and television ads hammer away at the theme that relief is just a swallow away for any condition, from nervous tension to drowsiness. As Sociologists William Simon and John H. Gagnon write: "Modern medicine has made drugs highly legitimate, something to be taken casually and not only during moments of acute and certified stress. Our children, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging...